Capercaillie: Skye Waulking song

Capercaillie: Skye Waulking song

1. Instrumentation and Texture

   • The layered texture
     • ryhthmic pattern on the drum kit
     • A bass line played by the bass guitar
     • Chords on the synthesiser and accordion
     • Main melogy sung by voice
     • Countermelodies on the other melody instruments
   • The three most instruments
     • Wurliter piano - a types of early electric piano
     • Uilleann pipes - like the bagpipes but with a softer tone
     • Bouzouki - a tyoes of lute that comes form Greece

2. Structure

   • There four different phrases
     • Phrase 1: call( in Gaslic, starts on a high D)
     • Refrain 1: response vocables, starts on a mid B
     • Phrase 2: call ( in Gaelic, starts on a low D)
     • Refrain 2: response vocables, starts on a high E

3. Melody

   • pentatonic (based on a five note scale)
   • it uses a low register of the voice
   • It mainly syllabic
   • the instrumentation plays a short motifs

4. Metre

   • the song is notated in 12/8 (compound quadruple metre)

5. Rhythm

   • It start of the song the hi - hat pattern creates cross rhythms. When the full band enters the hi - hat pattern changes

6. Harmony

   • the song is in G major
   • The three main chords are G, Em and C
   • the dominant chord is D so avoided, the music has a modal feel

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